Sixteen editions of a literature award may decide its real value: after this heritage you may fly or die. But this award has grown up a lot in the last ten years, conquering friends, public and extimators, and a complete trust from the authors. It is even younger, communicating with expert readers and curious young people. The merit goes all to the books, the writers and to the italian narrative skill that always shines: you have only to watch inside it, in the multitude of what has been published. It happened a lot of times, also last year: “sleeping and shy” books, presented and awarded here, then awarded again by the big renowned national organizations. We choose again the novels because of the firm convinction that the novel doesn’t belong to “a genre”, but to the “genre of genres”. The 2011 edition wants to be a convincing test for everyone: men and their relationships, society and its events, the decisions of the powerfuls, the sufferings of the human kind. Many thanks to the sponsors: Seletti, Gruppo Mauro Saviola, Studio Badini CreaTeam, Arti Grafiche Castello.